http://SaturnianCosmology.Org/ mirrored file For complete access to all the files of this collection see http://SaturnianCosmology.org/search.php ========================================================== Corrida /One of the Chatal-Huyuk "temples" (documentary reconstruction)/ James Mellaart, an English archaeologist, excavated a part of one of the earliest in the world protourbans settlements Chatal-Huyuk in Central Anatolia in the valley of Konja. Its territory was about 15 hectares, only 0,5 h are excavated now. There appeared to be 12 constructive layers, accumulated during almost one thousand of years. A series of 14 radiocarbon dates showed the age from 6500 up to 5650 BC. At present we do not know the more ancient settlements, the inhabitants of which have constructed dwellings from unburnt bricks, bred domestic cattle, grew wheat and other cultivated plants. They could already process copper and lead. A deposit of obsidian - volcanic glass is not far from the settlement. Handy, sharp and durable tools were made from it and so obsidian was very valuable then; the Chatal-Huyuk inhabitances used it as the main object of change with the peoples of West Anatolia, Cyprus and Levant. The houses in Chatal-Huyuk were constructed closely to one another, so one could walk only inside or on flat roofs. One could enter the house only through a small light window under the roof, which served to lighten and to ventilate the dwelling. The outside walls were blank and massive. Adjoining one another they formed a united protection of the living zone which could withstand a siege and an assault from outside. /A fresco in one of the temples. The bull is the central personage/ The remains of the houses, conditionally called "temples" are of special interest. About 40 of there had been discovered. They were houses with painted walls, moulded reliefs with the bulls' skulls with horns. There were many stone and clay statuettes, hand stencils on the walls like in palaeolithic caves.